Patent

BAA offers qualified professional expertise relating to patents within all technical disciplines, including biotechnology and information technology / software. Read more

Trademark

BAA offers general consultancy services as well as specialist legal services relating to all aspects of Norwegian trademark law and practice. Read more

Bryn Aarflot AS at INTA 2009!

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Beware of the "Norway/ EP/PCT trap"

A decline in the number of incoming PCT Norwegian national phase applications to the Norwegian Industrial Property Office seems to indicate that many foreign patent attorneys believe that any PCT application now to be entered as a European regional phase, will also include Norway.

This is not so if the PCT was filed prior to 01.01.2008!

Practically all PCT applications now about to be entered nationally/regionally will need special consideration if Norway is at all of interest to the applicant. Only in PCT applications filed 01.01.2008 or later, Norway will be included among the EP designations. Read more

Norway accedes to the EPC

The EPC will enter into force for Norway on 1 January 2008. Hence, Norway will be included among the designated states in European patent applications filed on or after that date. Read more

Top of the range again! Bryn Aarflot leading in patent and trademark work in Norway according to MIP

Oslo/London, March/April 2009: The Global Magazine for intellectual property owners, ”Managing Intellectual Property” (MIP), with offices in London, New York and Hong Kong, has rated Bryn Aarflot as a top firm both in the patent and trademark survey for 2009. As you may recall, Bryn Aarflot were even in 2007 and 2008 rated in the top tier.

It is the 13th Managing IP survey of the leading firms practising IP, listing firms in more than 70 jurisdictions. The ranking is founded on results from a team of researchers based in London, New York and Hong Kong that have asked firms in 70 jurisdictions for information and feedback on the rankings. Client feedback has also been considered. Based on this research, Bryn Aarflot was ranked in the top tier for Norway, and is perceived as a leading firm in the Norwegian market.

Bryn Aarflot leading in trademark & copyright work

Oslo/London, March 2008: Bryn Aarflot is again ranked as one of only three top-tier agencies in trademark and copyright work in Norway, according to a survey published in the March issue of ”Managing Intellectual Property” (MIP). Every year since 1996, the readers of the world’s leading magazine on intellectual property rights, have ranked the top agencies within trademark and patents in several markets all over the world. Read more